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13 courses baroque lute

Esteban Perez Esquivel sends us this announcement: The history of the instrument: The story goes that the original lute was 8 or 10 courses long. It was built by Hans Burkholtzer in Füssen in 1596 and is now displayed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna under number SAM 44 as a 13-order baroque lute. A […]